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Modern Landscape Paintings

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Under the sea Series Nº 5 Úbeda. Oil fantasy underwater landscape.
Located in Segovia, ES
Under the sea Series. Nº 5. Fantasy underwater landscape. Oil on paper, (H) 43 x (W) 41 x (D) 0.1 cm. Author: Úbeda. The sheets that make up th...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Paper

Small path and blue boat
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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1920s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

French Modernist Large Oil Painting Autumn Trees in Provence Landscape d. 2002
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Autumn Provence by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) signed and dated 2002 oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 25.5 x 21 inches provenance: private collection...
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Monumental Signed Modernist Landscape Colorful Chairs Framed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed.
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape - Oil on Canvas by Alberto Sillani - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an artwork by Alberto Sillani, realized in the mid-20thCentury. Oil on Canvas 49 x 39.5 cm ; 75 x 65 cm with frame. Handsigned in the lower margin. Good conditions
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Red & Blue French Buildings Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour on artist paper, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed. p...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) Cityscape 36 x 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1930. lower right Provenance Estate of the artist. ACA Galleries, New York Exhibited New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Changing Old New York, 1931. New York, ACA Galleries, Ernest Fiene: Art of the City, 1925-1955, May 2-23, 1981, n.p., no. 5. BIO Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1971 Mid-Century Modern Swedish Framed River Landscape Oil Painting - Boathouse
Located in Bristol, GB
BOATHOUSE Size: 54 x 48 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A soothing and restful modernist style river landscape composition, executed in oil and dated 1971. The composition pres...
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The Cavern 1950 painting by John Atherton
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed lower right: "Atherton", inscribed "John Atherton Original Tempera 7/28/50" on verso. Artwork measures 16" x 20" and framed 20" x 24" x 2 ½" About this artists: John Atherton (1900-1952) did not show an early aptitude for art; rather, his first love was nature and the activities he relished there, mainly fishing and hunting. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1900, he learned to fish with his father from the age of four. Later the family moved to Spokane, Washington, and when he was old enough, Atherton worked at a variety of jobs to help support his family. One such job, in the sorting plant of a lead and silver mine, paid $4.25 a day—a good wage, though he never had time to spend his money, since he worked seven days a week. After serving in the Navy for a year during World War I, Atherton was determined to get an education. He worked as a sign painter and played the banjo in a dance band, finally accumulating enough money to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Once there, he worked like a fiend, attending classes both during the day and at night, getting the best training available. Though he had always intended to be a fine artist, Atherton’s first jobs were for commercial art firms. In 1929, using the prize money won for a painting he entered in an art competition, Atherton and his wife moved to New York City. Though the economic situation was difficult in those years, he managed to keep going by taking commissions for magazine illustrations, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post. In 1938, an artist friend suggested that he use the same flat, decorative style as his commercial work for his gallery paintings. This was a breakthrough for Atherton; soon afterwards he held a one-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and his paintings began to be collected by museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Atherton’s reputation increased to a national scale when he designed the art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 World’s Fair that strikingly depicted Earth and its atmospheric layers in the lap of Liberty. Atherton was highly influenced by the magic realist...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Tempera, Masonite

Large Jerusalem Hills Landscape Modernist Israeli Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oded Feingersh. painter and chemical engineer. Born in Jerusalem. Graduate of Bezalel Art Academy, studied art in Paris. Education 1960–63 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design,, Jerusalem 1979-83 Avshalom Institute, Tel-Aviv Geography of Israel 1965–68 Paris, Brussels and Madrid Feingersh's work ranges between social realism, naturalism, pop-art and surrealism. As a vagabond-artist, he draw endless influences from all around the world, his world is abundant with personal and collective mythology, classic and modern influences, from the medieval art to Hieronymus Bosch and Thomas Huffman. Selected one person exhibition: 1964 Chermernisky Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv 1966 Tournesol Galerie, Paris 1966 Montjoie Gallerie, Brussels 1967 Campo Gallerie, Antwerp 1968 Sala Amadis, Madrid 1969 Views of Fear, Engel Gallery, Jerusalem 1970 Psychic Drawings, Dugit Gallery, Tel-Aviv A secret Agent's Battles Against International Communism, Engel Gallery 1975 Tel Aviv Museum 1977 Arta Gallery, Jerusalem 1978 Ella Gallery, Jerusalem 1979 Fontana Gallery, Stockholm 1982 Art...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid 20th Century French Signed Oil South of France Fishing Nets Drying in Harbor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Drying the Nets French School, mid 20th century signed oil on board, framed framed: 13 x 18 inches board: 10.5 x 15 provenance: private collection, France condition: might benefit f...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Surreal Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 18H.
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting -Beautiful French Town With Two Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed size: 20 x 14 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Jerusalem Tower of David, Sabra, Israeli British Modernist Impasto Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Early modernist Israeli Judaica painting, by British mid-century artist. Israel Old City of Jerusalem scene.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Untitled (Martha’s Vineyard- Aquinnah Cliffs )
Located in Chicago, IL
A serene landscape of Martha's Vineyard (Depicting Aquinnah Cliffs) by Francis Chapin, from around 1950. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his ...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Villecroze, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Located in Genève, GE
Artwork on canvas Golden wooden frame 51 x 62 x 2.5 cm
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1990s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Battle Ships at Sea Naval Engagement Signed British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Battle at Sea by Gordon Wood Armstrong (British late 20th century) signed oil on board, framed framed: 23 x 29 inches board: 18 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, English co...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Edinburgh Tenements - Large Modern Mid Century British Architectural Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A superb large 1950's oil on board which we believe to depict the tenement buildings of the Milnes Court area in Edinburgh. Clothes hang from T shaped driers as a lady hangs her wash...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique Early American School Modernist Framed Original Street Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
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1910s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

197's French Modernist Signed Oil Palm Trees in Village Landscape Large Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Pathway by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) signed and dated 1970 oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 23.5 x 29 inches provenance: private collection, Fr...
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Village landscape, Geneva countryside
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Landscape - Oil on Board - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an artwork realized by an artist of the late 19th century. Oil on board, 11 x 8 cm ; 16 x 12 cm with frame 19th century. Original wooden handmade frame. Good condit...
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19th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Lacoste South of France Beautiful French Modern Oil Painting Signed & Titled
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Place de l'Elige, Lacoste, French artist, signed and dated oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 18.5 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, France condition: very go...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

French Modernist Oil Painting Pathway in Sun Scorched Provence Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pathway in Provence by Andre Guilou (French 1925-2017) signed and dated 2000 oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 29 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very goo...
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Pontoons , Amalfi, Italy' Mixed media on paper. Circa 2005.
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine mixed media plien air painting by Gradwell. The Amalfi coast, Italy . An evening study in low light. mixed media on paper: 34cmx 54cm Glazed gallery frame: 52cm x 73cm
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

Mountain Sunset, Colorado, Vintage 1950s Autumn Landscape Painting with River
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painted in 1958 by Harold Vincent Skene (1883-1978) titled 'Mountain Sunset'. Colorado mountain autumn landscape featuring changing leaves...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

"The Arno" Italian Village by the River Oil Painting by Bruce McCracken
Located in Pasadena, CA
This oil painting from the 65s by California Artist Bruce McCracken derives its title and inspiration from the mythical Arno River in Tuscany. Dividing the historic city of Florence into two distinct parts, the Arno has long captivated the collective imagination and continues to be a subject of exploration for many contemporary artists. Set against the backdrop of the Arno's picturesque banks, the artist likely sought inspiration from the vantage point of the Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) in Florence. The painting is divided into two distinct horizons. The upper section showcases architectural buildings poised upon a medieval arch...
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Panoramic Painting of the Harvest by Leonard Creo
Located in Larchmont, NY
Leonard Creo (American, 1923-2019) Untitled, c. 1960s Oil on canvas 29 x 48 in. Framed: 30 1/8 x 49 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. Signed lower right: Creo Creo was bor...
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

From the kitchen garden view of the church of St François-de-Sales, Chêne-Bourg
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Brown wooden frame 76.5 x 65.5 x 4.5 cm
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Under The Sea Series Nº 26. Oil fantasy underwater blue green red landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 26. Oil on paper. Fantasy underwater abstract landscape. Green-blue-red color. Transparencies effect. Measurements: (H) 40 cm. / 15.75 in. (W) 27 cm. / 10....
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Mount Hamilton Realist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid, modernist Mt. Hamilton landscape attributed to Luke Stamos (American, 20th century). Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size: 18"H x 24"W. This art work is in the distinctive realistic style of Luke Stamos. We certify that the work is by the hand of Luke Stamos. Artists statement: "I was born in Chicago, and began studying art at the Chicago Art Institute at age 5. When my family moved to San Francisco in 1944, I became aware of California’s splendid outdoor life, and began to pursue a life-long hobby of hunting and fishing. While attending high school in Daly City...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sicilian Landscape - Oil on Canvas by Lello Barresi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
City landscape is an artwork realized by Lello Barresi in 1980s. Oil on Canvas 67 x 47 cm ; 100 x 80 cm. Good conditions
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Oil Figures in North African Street Market with Old Pots
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Market Sellers French School, mid/ last quarter 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 7 x 9 inches provenance: private collection, F...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Beautiful French Watercolour Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour on artist paper, unframed size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed. p...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

'Evening Light , Cumbria', mixed media on paper circa 2010. Signed.
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine study piece by A. M. Gradwell. Painted plein air during winter months in 'The Lake District'. He revisits the place since his Residency at Grizedale Forrest , Artist in Reside...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

Large Marine Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting with Boats at a Dock, Signed
By James L. Thomas
Located in Plainview, NY
A late 20th century oil on canvas of a marine landscape depicting boats at a dock featuring a blue tone. The painting, an exemplary work of the American landscape art work of the 20t...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Tranquil French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed size: 15.5 x 21 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoye...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Flocks of houses
Located in Lafayette, LA
This small work, entitled flocks of houses measures 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide. It is oil on canvas on wood sketchers. It's signed on the reverse. The writing on the reverse rea...
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Exotic Landscape - Painting by Kabemba Situna WA - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Exotic Landscape is an artwork realized by Kabemba Situna Wa. Oil on Canvas, 1970s. 38 x 58 cm ; 65 x 85 cm with frame. Good conditions
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Under The Sea Series Nº 27. Úbeda. Oil fantasy underwater blue-green landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 27. Oil on paper. Fantasy underwater abstract landscape. Green-blue color. Transparencies effect. Measurements: (H) 50 cm. / 19.69 in. (W) 40 cm. / 15.75 in...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Oil

"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern Ludwig Bemelmans (1898 – 1962), “Coney Island" 35 x 27 inches Oil on board Signed lower left Origin...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Landscape - Oil on Copper by Mario Feno - Late 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an artwork realized by Mario Feno, in the late 20th century. Oil on Copper. Hand signed in the lower right. 8 x 23 cm ; 23.5 x 38 cm. Good conditions
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Copper

Fauvist Israeli Landscape, Going to Synagogue Judaica Oil Painting
By Melitta Schiffer
Located in Surfside, FL
Melitta Schiffer, painter. b. Trieste, Italy. In her youth, moved to Weimar, Germany with her parents. Studied at Art Academy, Weimar, Germany; Advanced studies with artist Mildan; 1...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

American School Modernist Framed Original Sunset Signed Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting - Expressionist Town with Palm Tree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

1980's French Modernist Signed Oil Abandoned Village Cubist Houses in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abandoned Village by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) signed oil on canvas, framed dated 1982 framed: 23 x 30.5 inches canvas: 21.5 x 29 inches provenanc...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Landscape with Quarry' oil on canvas circa 1974
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine oil by Bengy Hansson ( Danish) circa 1974. Landscape with a quarry . An extensive natural landscape interupted by mans activity scaring the natural topography creating artific...
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

The tree of the yard by Isaac Charles Goetz - Oil on canvas 27x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil work on canvas without frame
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Contemporary Modernist Style Street Scene Oil Painting 1998 - Houses at Midnight
Located in Bristol, GB
HOUSES AT MIDNIGHT Size: 40 x 65 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A delightful modernist-style composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1998. This picturesque compositi...
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1990s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950 Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Golden Meadows, Framed
Located in Bristol, GB
GOLDEN MEADOWS Size: 58 x 70 cm (including frame) Oil on board An large and alluring textured modernist coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1950. Th...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Walking Through the Wood - Oil on Board - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Walking through the Wood is an artwork realized by an unknown, Mid-20th Century. Oil on Board Unreadable signature. 8 x 5.5 cm ; 20 x 17.5 cm with frame. Good conditions!
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Nantucket Steamer
Located in Chicago, IL
A gem of a painting depicting a Nantucket lighthouse by Francis Chapin, from around 1950. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Cactus Flower
Located in Lafayette, LA
Here is a small paper piece produced in 2019 by Louisiana artist Francis X Pavy . About Francis X Pavy In the vast tapestry of the art world, Art collectors are attracted to the ...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Abandoned (Colorado) - Oil on Canvas, American Modern Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'Abandoned (Colorado)' is an oil painting by William Sanderson (1905-1990) depicting an abandoned house in green grass hills. Presented in a custom frame measuring 13 ¼ x 16 ½ inches; image size measures 8 ½ x 11 ¼ inches. Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Born Latvia 1905 Died Colorado 1990 The elder son of a construction engineer, he was born Wilhelm Tsiegelnitsky in a seaside resort near Riga, Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Grigori Mojesevich (later Anglicized to Gregory) was of Russian-Jewish heritage, while his mother Berta (Bertha) came from a German-Jewish background. Because preference in awarding construction contracts at that time were being given to members of the Russian Orthodox Church, his father had the whole family baptized in that church which he kept a secret from Sanderson’s grandparents. His father’s profession took the family to a number of cities in various parts of the Russian Empire including Warsaw, Kharkhov, Kiev, and Samarkand in Asia. To his mother’s annoyance, he scribbled on anything within easy reach, deciding by age ten that he would make art his lifetime goal. During the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 the family lived with relatives in Rostov-on-the-Don where his mother enrolled him in the local Chinyenov Art School, marking the first step in his art career. Feeling that they would have no place in the new Communist political reality, in 1921 the family left Rostov for Kiev, emigrating to Italy and Greece on short-term visas before arriving in New York two years later, sponsored by Gregory’s relatives in New Jersey. The Tsiegelnitsky surname was changed to the more pronounceable Siegel. Experiencing the frustration shared by most immigrants seeking to establish themselves in a new, unfamiliar environment, Sanderson sufficiently mastered English by 1924 to attend the Fawcett School of Industrial Art in Newark (later the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art) where he studied with Ida Wells Stroud, herself a student of William Merritt Chase and Arthur Dow and part of the early twentieth-century Arts & Crafts Movement. Seeking a more challenging curriculum, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan (1924-1927), studying painting with Charles Hawthorne, etching with William Auerbach-Levy, and life drawing with Charles L. Hinton. Sanderson won the Suydam Medal for Life Drawing, First Prize in Composition, and Honorable Mention in Etching. He also briefly attended the Art Students League in New York in 1928, studying lithography with Charles Locke who in 1936 taught a summer course in the medium at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. However, Sanderson quit the League when he could no longer afford the tuition. With his art studies behind him, he began a successful career in illustration in New York. Briefly associated with the Evening Graphic, he maintained a decade-long affiliation with the New Masses, honored to be in the company of such established artist-contributors as Jean Charlot, Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Louis Lozowick, Reginald Marsh, Jan Matulka and Boardman Robinson – some of whom later were affiliated with the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in the 1930s and 1940s. As a young immigrant he came to share some of the popular views of the left-wing intellectual community in American in the 1920s and early 1930s; but in 1936 he severed his connections with the New Masses because he did not like the direction it had taken by that time. In 1929, the year of the stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression, he began doing commercial book illustration in New York which he continued until being drafted during World War II. However, his steady income disqualified him from participation in the Works Progress Administration (WPA)-era art projects. A barometer of his success was his inclusion in the Fifth Exhibition of American Book Illustration in 1935 sponsored by American Institute of Graphic Arts whose jurors included Edith Halpert of The Downtown Gallery in New York. Among the book titles he illustrated were: Marian Hurd McNeeley, The Jumping Off Place; P.N. Krasnoff, Yermak the Conqueror; Joe Lederer, Fanfan in China; Fay Orr, Freighter Holiday; and The Cavalcade of America. His images of a covered wagon and a Daniel Boone prototype in the last-named publication anticipate subjects he later explored more fully in his easel painting in Colorado with likenesses such as The Woman of the Plains and Hombre. In the 1930s and early 1940s he also produced illustrations and covers for leading American magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Cue, and Harper’s. In 1931 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in Manhattan and by 1936 began informally using Sanderson as his surname, making the change official in 1941. In 1937 he was given a solo show at the American Contemporary Art (A.C.A.) Gallery in New York. The following year he became art director at the McCue Ad Agency in New York where he worked until after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Looking forward to the day when he could give up illustration for the fine arts, his career change was set in motion when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in March 1942. After basic training at Kessler Field near Biloxi, Mississippi (where the Tuskegee Airmen also trained) he shipped out at his own request to Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, becoming part of the Army Air Corps and taking an instant liking to Colorado. At Lowry his humorous drawings of barracks life were published in the base newspaper, The Rev-Meter. In the summer of 1943 he had his first solo exhibition in Colorado at the Denver Art Museum-Chappell House that consisted of black-and-white drawings of army life. He also began painting watercolor scenes from memory of his previous life in the East. His two visits to Vance Kirkland’s studio in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, while stationed at Lowry, occasioned a lifelong friendship and professional association. On Sanderson’s excursion in 1943 to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center he met his future wife, Ruth Lambertson from Cedar Falls, Iowa, whom he married eight weeks later, initiating a union lasting forty-seven years. His fluency in Russian landed him an assignment as an interpreter with the American ground forces meeting up with the Soviet Army marching westward toward Berlin in the last months of World War II. His impressions and photos of the bombed-out city formed the basis of his montage, Berlin 1945, painted in Denver in 1947. Its palette and collage-like quality and that of some of his other paintings from this period reflect the influence of American modernist, Stuart Davis. Following his military discharge and some brief design work for the Kistler Stationery Company and the A.B. Hirschfeld Press in Denver, Sanderson swapped commercial art for academia in 1946 when Vance Kirkland hired him as Assistant Professor of Advertising Design at the University of Denver, which subject he taught until retiring in 1972. Along with Kirkland and other faculty artists, he became a charter member of the 15 Colorado Artists. Founded in 1948, the group comprised some of the state’s leading contemporary artists seeking to distance themselves from much of the traditional imagery then being produced and exhibited in Denver and elsewhere. Reflecting the viewpoint of his fellow charter members Sanderson said, "I’m very taken with the nature scenes in this region, but it’s not the function of the artist to paint them when there are photographers around." Paraphrasing Picasso, the leading representative of contemporary art at that time, he added: "The painting is the artist’s representation of what nature is not." The financial security and stability of his teaching position at the University of Denver (DU) gave him the freedom to develop his easel painting. He produced a large body of oils and watercolors in both stylized Realism and Surrealism depicting, respectively, Colorado-inspired subject matter and social criticism of modern life and industrial civilization. One of his first canvases, Steamship Ruth, titled in honor of his wife and incorporating elements remembered from the port of Rostov in Russia has large, precisely-arranged areas of flat color with crisp edges seen in many of his Colorado paintings in the 1950s and 1960s. Similarly, Mountain Rhythm employs a bright palette and undulating lines conveying his fascination with the overall composition of irregular mountain and cloud shapes. Trailer Park, near the foothills west of Denver, provided abundant material for a geometric form study, while Composition with Fried Eggs in the Denver Art Museum’s collection essentially is a semi-cubistic arrangement of interlocking planes and spaces that was reproduced in the August 25, 1952, issue of Time Magazine. His work was also shown in group exhibitions outside Colorado at the Dallas Fine Art Museum, Museum of New Mexico (now, New Mexico Museum of Art) in Santa Fe, Joslyn Memorial Museum in Omaha, San Francisco Art Association, Salt Lake City Art Center, and the Cedar City Art Museum Association in Utah. The positive notice accorded his work in the early 1950s earned him a commission from the Ford Motor Company to illustrate an article, Fort Garland, by Marshall Sprague in the June 1954 issue of Ford Times. (Similar commissions were also given at that time to Denver’s Vance Kirkland and Richard Sorby.) In the mid-1950s Sanderson also executed several murals in different techniques for secular and religious buildings in Colorado, reminiscent of artists’ commissions under the Federal Arts Projects (FAP) during the Depression era: the Graland School lobby and the Colorado Tobacco Building, both in Denver; St. Joseph’s School, Salida; Mesa Elementary School, Cortez; as well as the Andrew Jackson Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Sanderson’s life in Europe and illustration work for the New Masses in New York made him very aware of ethnic and racial prejudice. He said, "I believe the artist is first of all a human being with the ability to see and depict the hope, aspirations and the despair of other human beings." In the 1950s he recorded the political movement for Black racial equality in paintings such as Noon Hour, Whites Only...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed - French Clock Tower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Benard Labbe Title: The Old Church Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Size: board: 8.75 x 7.25 inches Provenance: private collec...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

1977 Charming Mountain Campsite Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Campsite, 1977 Oil on canvas 14 x 18 1/2 in. Framed: 21 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 7/8 in. Initialed & dated lower right: 'J 77' Inscribed verso: 1977 Campsite
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Under The Sea Series Nº 13. Úbeda. Oil fantasy underwater landscape.
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 5. Úbeda. Oil on paper. Fantasy underwater landscape. Blue-green color. Author: Úbeda. Measurements: (H) 52 cm. / 20.47 in...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Under The Sea Series, Nº 11. Fantasy abstract underwater landscape.
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series, Nº 11. Fantasy abstract underwater landscape. Author: Úbeda. Oil on paper, 59 x 40 x 0,1 cm. The sheets that make up t...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Oil

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